Oil oozes from the busted rig. (AP Photo/Senate Environment and Public Works Committee)

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BP's "containment dome" plan failed big time, and the oil giant is less than confident as it readies its latest and greatest plan for tomorrow: The "top-kill" maneuver, which Reuters reports the company thinks has a 60%-70% chance of succeeding. Tomorrow BP plans to inject heavy fluids and cement into the seabed well to try plug the hole—a ploy that's worked previously, but never at 5000 feet underwater.

Those successes were in above-ground wells in the Middle East, notes CNN. If the "top kill" fails, BP plans to try a new tube to siphon oil from the gushing well. The markets, however, don't seem confident in either strategy: BP is trading at its lowest since July, says Business Week. Click here for the latest on the Gulf spill.

good name top kill get rid of people at top and use them to plug up the hole

postroad

May 25, 2010 3:24 PM CDT

time to clean the shit out of the stable. here is how the mess waws allowed to take place: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/05... /

postroad

May 25, 2010 3:20 PM CDT

We have an interesting situation here. The outraged citizens call on the govt to intervene, but the Coast Guard et al do not have the tech know how to deal with this and so count on BP, a company that mislead them a number of times. What we know: there is a method that works. You sink (build) another oil stopper (like the one that failed) alongside of the no good one. Problem: this takes at least a full month. But: in my view any further offshore oil drilling should require two such items just in case one fails! note to Homeland Security: some jihadist nutter might decide that taking out a power boat and ramming it (filled with TNT) into a rig might be a way to inflict mucho damage. question: why did congress put a cap on liability so oil industry would be protected?